Caldes en Temps de Guerres

Casa Perxachs – Programme

Once the Second World War was over on the orders given by the allied states, some of the Germans who lived in the Spanish state were temporarily confined to Caldes de Malavella to await a possible repatriation order due to their possible collaboration with Hitler’s regime.

This house, very near the parish church, which was rented to summer holiday makers coming to take the waters, accommodated German citizens living on Spanish soil who had been temporarily confined due to their collaboration with the Nazi regime during the war. Almost 100 German citizens were accommodated between 1945 and 1947 at different establishments in Caldes, pending repatriation orders from the allied forces and a large number of them were able to return to their cities of origin in Spain, under the protection of the Franco regime.

This house was one of those that provided protection to Nazis after the Second World War. One of them who was accommodated in this house was Herman Rudolf Tretter, a Gestapo officer assigned to Valencia. During his interrogation, Tretter explained that the Lieutenant Colonel of the Chief of Staff, Manuel Chamorro Cuervas-Mons, rather “pleasant,” and Antonio López Moreno were agents of the Segunda Bis (Information Services of the Spanish Army, Navy and Air Force) responsible for hiding the Germans claimed by the allies. Near the house is the social premises Casino-Unión, which at this time became a true place to socialise for locals and non-locals.